Grants
to Reduce Alcohol Abuse
Program Description
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Program Description
The Grants to Reduce Alcohol Abuse Program (GRAA) is a 3-year grant program
funded by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Safe and
Drug-Free Schools. GRAA funds go directly to school districts to provide
effective programming and strategies aimed at reducing alcohol use
at the secondary level.
The Northeast CAPT provides training and technical assistance to four
GRAA sites, all in their first year of funding.
Contact Information for Funded Sites
2008 Grantees
City of Berlin Public Schools
The North Country High School Coalition for Alcohol Abuse Prevention,
a collaboration of six northern New Hampshire high schools working
through North Country Education Services, provides training, curricula,
and supporting materials in four evidenced-based alcohol prevention
models, including: Life Skills, Leadership and Resiliency,
Prime for Life (pending NREPP review), and Reconnecting Youth. It also supports
three youth leadership opportunities: a teen institute, youth-to-youth
leadership conference, and a youth retreat. The coalition meets monthly
to discuss program implementation and develop a strong prevention network
across the region. Expected project outcomes include a decrease in
the percentage of students who report binge drinking, an increase in
the percentage of students who believe that alcohol abuse is harmful
to their health, and an increase in the percentage of students who
disapprove of alcohol use.
The North County High School Coalition for Alcohol Abuse Prevention,
Berlin, NH
Project Director, Lori Langlois
Phone: (603) 466-5437
Email: lori@ncedservices.org
Washington Central Supervisory Union
Since its inception in 2001, Community Connections (CC)—a provider
of enrichment and academic support programs—has offered Montpelier
and the adjoining towns of Berlin, Calais, East Montpelier, Middlesex
and Worcester, Vermont with a strategic collection of prevention-based,
out-of-school-time youth services , including academic assistance and
enrichment, fitness and wellness, mentoring, and drop-out prevention
programs. Under this grant, it will implement the CC Adventure Program,
a comprehensive approach that includes education, enrichment, asset building,
adventure-based learning, mentoring, environmental strategies, and coalition
building. Expected outcomes include reductions in alcohol use and binge
drinking, increased belief that underage alcohol use is harmful to one’s
health, and increased disapproval of underage alcohol abuse among secondary
school-aged youth.
Washington Central Supervisory Union, Montpelier, VT
Project Director, Virginia Burley
Phone: (802) 223-3456
Email: gburley@u32.org
Capital School District
The administration and staff of Dover High School in Dover, Delaware
will develop and implement an innovative comprehensive alcohol prevention
program using the Community That Cares model. Working in partnership
with Dover’s Community Coalition, the program will target risk
and protective factors at the individual/peer, family, school, and community
levels that affect students’ attitudes, perceptions, norms, and
beliefs about alcohol use. Environmental strategies implemented in and
outside of school will extend program benefits to students across Dover
and the surrounding communities.
Capital School District, Dover High School, Dover, DE
Project Director, Lynn R Widdowson
Phone: (302) 672-1955
Email: lywiddowson@capital.k12.de.us
Weston Public Schools
The Weston Project to Reduce Alcohol Abuse is a comprehensive, community-wide
intervention designed to address the alarming increase in underage
use and abuse of alcohol in Weston by creating a community-wide web
of support for students, parents, families, and the community. The
Project draws on the latest prevention research and technology, utilizing
five SAMHSA model programs, as well as several experimental programs
currently under SAMHSA review.
Weston High School, Weston, MA
Project Director, J. Mitchell Finnegan,
Phone: (781) 529-8030
Email: finneganm@mail.weston.org
Queen Anne’s County Alliance to Reduce Alcohol Abuse
According to the most recent data sources, 10th and 12th graders in Queen
Anne’s County (QAC) use beer, wine, liquor, and binge drink at
rates higher than the state average for all measured time intervals.
Recognizing the need to address these rates, the QAC Alliance to
Reduce Alcohol Abuse has adopted a multi-faceted approach to decreasing binge
drinking among secondary school students while increasing the percentage
of students who believe that alcohol is harmful to their health and who
disapprove of alcohol abuse. The alliance will implement three concurrent
strategies to accomplish these objectives. They will implement the evidence-based
prevention curricula Project Alert and Project Towards No
Drug Abuse,
raise the priority of prevention in county schools, and strengthen school
and community links.
Queen Anne’s County, Centreville, MD
Project Director, Suzanne Hogan
Phone: (410) 758-2403 x. 150
Email: hogans@qacps.k12.md.us
Downeast Alcohol Prevention Project
The primary goal of the Downeast Alcohol Abuse Prevention Project, operated
by the East Grand School in highly rural, economically-disadvantaged
eastern Maine, is to reduce underage drinking—and binge drinking,
in particular—through interventions that increase student attitudes
of disapproval and perceived harm from alcohol abuse (which, for Maine,
are among the lowest among states for ages 12-17). The project will
implement Too Good for Drugs (TGFD) a SAMHSA Model program designed
to improve relevant knowledge, attitudes, and problem-solving and peer
resistance skills. TGFD will be supplemented by three other programs:
(1) Community Trials Intervention to Reduce High-Risk Drinking, which
will link students with community mobilization and education efforts
to change norms and teen alcohol access; (2) Downeast Adventures, a
Project Adventure program combining classroom team-building and outdoor
experiential education using a high-ropes challenge course; and (3)
Downeast Teen Leadership Camp, a youth development, peer mentoring,
and empowerment approach for 8th and 9th graders at a semi-wilderness
camp on a lake.
Maine School District 14, Lubec, ME
Project Director, Mike Doran
Phone: (207) 733-1090, Ext 3112
Email: mdoran@mail.rmcl.org
(No Project Abstract Available)
City School District, New Rochelle, NY
Project Director Diane Massimo
Phone: (914) 576-4206
Email: dmassimo@newrochelle.k12.ny.us
2007 Grantees
Sullivan City Board of Education, NY
To enhance community linkages and build on an expanded network of support
for at-risk youth, the Sullivan City Board of Education will utilize
a variety of prevention strategies, including implementation of the
evidence-based programs Project Northland and Class Action, and establishment
of a coordinated referral system to connect youth and families with
available services. The project will serve approximately 5,300 students
across eight consortium districts.
Sullivan County, Liberty, NY
Project Director, Debra Fuchs Nadeau Ed.D.
Phone: (845) 295-4030
Email: dfuchs@scboces.org
2005 Grantees
Board of Cooperative Educational Services, Franklin County, New York
This agency has designed a three-year prevention effort entitled Franklin
County Project Success. The project has 4 goals: 1) to reduce underage
alcohol use; 2) to reduce the rate of binge drinking; 3) to increase
the number of high school students who believe alcohol use is harmful;
and 4) to decrease the social acceptance of underage drinking. To address
these goals, Franklin County is implementing four SAMHSA Model Programs:
Communities Mobilizing for Change on Alcohol; Family Matters; Project
Toward No Drug Abuse; and Project SUCCESS.
Rick Swanton, Project Director
3372 State Route 11
P.O. Box 28
Malone, NY 12953
Phone: (518) 483-6420
Email: RJS@mail.fehb.org
Pembroke Central School District, Pembroke, New York
This grantee is launching the Pembroke CARES (Collective Aim to Reduce
and Eliminate Substance Use) Program, designed to promote positive
attitudinal and behavioral change in teen alcohol and substance abuse
and assist students and families at risk. To achieve these goals, Pembroke
Central School is implementing two SAMHSA Model Programs: Class Action
and Project SUCCESS.
Joe Englebert, Project Director
Routes 5 & 77
P. O. Box 308
Corfu, NY 14036-0308
Phone: (585) 599-4525
Email: jenglebert@pembroke.k12.ny.us
New Bedford Public Schools, New Bedford, Massachusetts
This grantee is starting the Comprehensive Approaches to Alcohol
Prevention (CAAP) Program, designed to reduce underage drinking, with a particular
focus on binge drinking. The program will use a variety of universal
and selective strategies to change normative beliefs and behaviors
among youth, parents, and other members of the New Bedford community.
To achieve this goal, CAAP is implementing four SAMHSA Model Programs:
Class Action; Communities Mobilizing for Change on Alcohol; and Reconnecting
Youth.
Denise Gaudette, Project Director
455 County Street, Room 244
New Bedford, MA 02740-5194
Email: dgaudette@newbedford.k12.ma.us
Phone: (508) 997-4511
Washington County Alcohol Reduction Collaborative, Washington County,
Maine
This grantee’s overall project goal is to delay or prevent the
onset of alcohol use, as well as to reduce the overall amount of alcohol
use and subsequent abuse among adolescents in Washington County. To reach
this goal, Washington County is implementing two SAMHSA Model Programs:
Class Action and Community Trials Intervention for the Reduction of High
Risk Drinking.
Maine School Administration, Unit #19
44 South Lubec Road
Lubec, ME 04652-1152
Phone: (207) 733-1090
Donald Hallcom, Project Director
Email: dhallcom@rmcl.org
Mike Doran, Project Coordinator
Email: mdoran@rmcl.org
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Useful Links
U.S. Department of Education
www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/osdfs/index.html?src=oc
SAMHSA’S Center for Substance Abuse and Prevention
prevention.samhsa.gov/
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